Maybe they are fighting to liberate people from their belongings, material attachments that hold their spirits back from being free… might even do that to their bodies as well to release them from their bounds so they can achieve true freedom. These pirates are fighting for the freedom of others, people who they encounter, not even their own, while putting themselves in harm’s way for the benefit of others… pure selfless acts I would say.
Apparently you can’t see that people will often consider only their enemies as the bad guys even when they and their allies are doing exactly the same bad things. Still, that is what happens.
But don’t you have to think like that to fight , boost morale and drum up support, even sing songs and write poetry , even build monuments and temples to great victories, all to ease our conscience to the horrors we do, I know that’s more about real life but its still with in eve too
In story line missions you literally butcher people of other empires, and no matter if it is pirates or empire forces, those are all ships with thousands of people on board, in case of pirate ships probably not all voluntarily.
In stark contrast, if a capsuleer dies, no one actually dies, because they can control all systems from the capsule without a crew on board and is actually immortal.
The empires could not care less if we kill each other, or even cheer if we kill the capsuleers that go after regular folks like them.